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They pleaded that nobody would have them with so many children at a rental within their means, which is one of the commonest complaints of the poor, by-the-bye.
THE CHILDREN 2010
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Oh, and by-the-bye again, thanx for the faux-psychological mumbo-jumbo adout me having issues.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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You don't hate torture, per se; you hate George Bush, and Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, but, much too lily-livered to express your true hatreds, you resort to criticising their work ... which, by-the-bye kept you safe!
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Oh, and by-the-bye again, thanx for the faux-psychological mumbo-jumbo adout me having issues.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Men like Schia-parelli watched the red planet—it is odd, by-the-bye, that for countless centuries Mars has been the star of war—but failed to interpret the fluctuating appearances of the markings they mapped so well.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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You don't hate torture, per se; you hate George Bush, and Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, but, much too lily-livered to express your true hatreds, you resort to criticising their work ... which, by-the-bye kept you safe!
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Yes, by-the-bye, I know that young Mr. Borkman is to be there this evening.
John Gabriel Borkman 2008
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Yes, by-the-bye, I know that young Mr. Borkman is to be there this evening.
John Gabriel Borkman 2008
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President — whom I cannot help feeling it, by-the-bye, a kind of crime to depose, even thus peacefully, and for so short a time — I say, glancing over this report, I found one statement of fact in the very opening which gave me an uncommon satisfaction.
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He had laid out the few feet of ground, behind, with exquisite neatness, and had made a little bed in the centre, that looked, by-the-bye, like
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